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Matti Wilks on human-animal interaction and moral circle expansion

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The Effect of Moral Concern on Giving What We Can

I imagine there's probably a couple of different parts to it where your path could be that you have just like very strong capacity to feel so you might really be able to empathize or feel compassionately towards those kinds of groups. It could also be something like a more reasoned approach to things so in a recent study we've looked at individual differences between people who've taken the giving what we can pledge and sort of country match controls. Giving what we can is higher in a whole range of reason traits, open-minded thinking need for cognition as well as being more morally expansive than a couple of other things. I don't have a very good answer but I think you probably have some strange combination

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